The one-time regional rivals, India and China, now want to bring their armies closer together. Beijing’s top military chief is on a visit to New Delhi, aiming to boost the influence of the two Asian giants. But news of this alliance is already causing concern across the Pacific, as RT’s Priya Sridhar explains. RT LIVE [...]
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Last month’s ethnic riots in northeastern India left dozens of people dead. The violence pitted Muslim Bengali settlers against the mainly Hindu Bodo tribes in Assam state. Al Jazeera’s Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
The Indian government says bogus websites and text messages that helped fuel ethnic panic in the country came from Pakistan. The government has been trying to calm fears following violence in the state of Assam, and rumours of revenge attacks across half of the country. Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane explains.
India has accused Pakistan of fuelling ethnic tensions in the country over the last few weeks by fabricating threatening messages sent by mobile phones and over the internet that triggered a panic among migrant workers in southern Indian cities, leading to thousands fleeing their homes. Are the allegations true and how will this affect ties [...]
Links between Asia’s two fastest growing economies China and India range from sharing billions of dollars in trade to having a similar outlook onto the world’s big issues. As RT’s Priya Shridhar reports, growing powerhouse friendship is one that some western countries would like to see cool down. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com [...]
Pakistan is marking its 65th Independence Day on August 14. With a struggling economy, tense geo-political relationships and rising extremism, however, things have been less than positive for the country in recent years. Now, it is turning to its neighbour, and historical rival, India to try and mend old wounds and loosen trade restrictions, in [...]
In 2010 violent protests violence erupted across Kashmir as people protested against the Indian rule. For weeks, a state of curfew was imposed bringing down productivity and people’s morale. While normalcy has returned back to the state, there are other problems facing people here. No new jobs have been created and no new industries are [...]
Security has been stepped up in Indian’s financial capital, Mumbai, after two people were killed and dozens injured in a protest denouncing ethnic riots. Demonstrators took to the streets in reaction to alleged attacks on Muslims in the northeastern Assam state and in neighbouring Myanmar before the chaos ensued. Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Scawen reports.
Two people died and dozens were injured in clashes in India’s financial capital between police and thousands of Muslims who were protesting over the deaths of co-religionists in the country’s northeast last month, police said. Police fired guns into the air in central Mumbai and used lathis (long bamboo batons) to disperse the protesters, who [...]